Just that. They've gone back to the original film elements, redone the effects and made TNG look great at 1080p resolution, with audio to match...

But the thing is that the original TNG releases were much lower than DVD tech, little more than VHS resolution, video composited effects work, and with soft, ghosting imagery. Whereas most feature film DVDs can be upscaled to hi-def TVs with resasonable results, the same can't be said for late eighties NTSC television.

If the new masters of TNG were put onto DVD, they'd be able to get the max out of the 480 line resolution (576 for PAL) and would look as good as they'd possibly could, and would be a useful alternative for those not yet on the Blu bandwagon.

I don't even buy stuff on DVD anymore, unless it's £1 or less. With Blurays as little as £4 and similar prices to DVD's for new releases thesedays, what's the point ? Even with upscaling, DVD's not worth it any more...

I have four DVD players, and not enough access to the HD TV... But I'm speaking generally, not personally, as Blu-ray saturation still isn't sufficient enough to warrant Blu-ray only releases. Most everything that comes out on Blu-ray is available on DVD, and TNG's remaster is pretty rare in that it's Blu-ray exclusive at this time.

EDIT: Just been listening to an anime podcast from a UK anme distributor, and at around the halfway mark, there's some conversation about Blu-rays and DVD, and an interesting statistic is that even in first world Japan, Blu-rays will sell only 30% of the numbers that DVDs sell. Sony wanting a licencing chunk of every BD disc manufactured is slowing the proliferation of the medium.

I would never have thought that a physical home medium would be in competition with high speed broadband and subscription based streaming services. I guess another related question is if the remastered episodes on Netflix yet?

I'm surprised they didn't release it on DVD. The superior remastered quality is also very apparent in DVD resolution. Films are also still released both on DVD and blu ray. TOS-R was released on DVD as well.

I'm not surprised it also wasn't released on DVD with DVD not being an HD format and that kinda being the whole point of all of this. BluRay Players as mentioned above are cheap these days so not a big deal to get one.

Can someone tell me what the output jacks are like on a typical Blu-ray player? Assuming they have the traditional (in the States) red and white RCA jacks for audio (no doubt along with digital audio), what video output formats do they have?

Can someone tell me what the output jacks are like on a typical Blu-ray player? Assuming they have the traditional (in the States) red and white RCA jacks for audio (no doubt along with digital audio), what video output formats do they have?